On Saturday, 11 August 2012 at 16:12:14 UTC, Peter Alexander
wrote:
On Saturday, 11 August 2012 at 14:45:55 UTC, Russel Winder
wrote:
On Sat, 2012-08-11 at 02:19 +0200, David Piepgrass wrote:
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I hope someday to have a programming system whose features
are not limited to whatever features the language designers
saw fit to include -- a language where the users can add
their own features, all the while maintaining "native
efficiency" like D. That language would potentially allow
Rust-like code, D-like code, Ruby-like code and even ugly
C-like code.
I guess you don't want to be the one to kickstart that PL.
I've been planning to do it myself, but so far the task seems
just too big for one person.
<quasi-troll>
Isn't that language Lisp?
</quasi-troll>
You missed the native efficiency part :-)
You mean like the Common Lisp compilers that are able to beat
FORTRAN compilers
in floating point computations?
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.54.5725
--
Paulo
